Three for the Road

Peru – The Lost City of Gold

Adams climbs the lonely Peruvian highlands to seek an inca artifact that has never been found: the Golden Disk of the Sun. He finds uncharted remains of an Inca ruin.

The Last Mahout

Once elephants roamed throughout Asia in vast herds, at the turn of the 20th century there were three hundred thousand in Thailand alone. But today just seeing an elephant in the wild is a rare and fleeting experience. Asia’s proud symbol of strength and power is disappearing, their numbers are in free fall, their habitat […]

Sudan – The Mystery of the African Pharoahs

Adams crosses the vast northern Sudanese desert and sails down the Nile all the way to Khartoum. Along the way he finds the pyramids of Meroe, silent sentinels to a long-lost civilisation.

Pakistan – The Road to Shangri-La

In this nail-biting adventure, DAVID ADAMS seeks the source of the Indus River high in Pakistan’s lonely mountains to find Shangri-La: immortalized by the writer James Hilton in his book Lost Horizons. Starting in Peshawar on the lawless frontier with Afghanistan, Adams crosses high mountain ranges, plays an ancient horse-back game called Buzkashi, attends a […]

Niger – The Land of Fear

It takes its name from the Arabic word for emptiness: Al Sahra. But the Sahara is really a collection of deserts, with the most remote being the Ténèré. I have set out across the Ténèré in the way that caravans have done for a thousand years. It will mean a journey of 1,200 miles over […]

Libya – The Ancient Chariots of Libya

Libya is Africa’s last great unknown. A vast desert country veiled from the West by fear, prejudice and misunderstanding. Two thousand years ago, though, it was home to the richest cities in Africa; command base for the Greek and Roman empires whose armies swept through North Africa. DAVID ADAMS embarks on a desert adventure to […]

Kenya – Swahili Sinbads

For the better part of a thousand years, the coasts of Tanzania and Kenya were the destination for traders, adventurers and fortune-hunters from as far afield as Persia, Cathay and Europe. The name of Zanzibar evoked tales of perfumes, spices, exotic animals and of course slavery. DAVID ADAMS retraces the old trade routes along the […]

Kamchatka – The Forbidden Zone

Adams travels across the simmering heat of the Sahara with a Tuareg caravan, haggles for a pillar of salt and skis down the biggest sand dune in the world. This is the Land of Fear.

Iran – People of the Flame

In the heart of an ancient nation, a sacred fire burns. It hasn’t been extinguished for over 2,000 years. Its mysteries inspired the faith of millions and lie at the very root of what Christians, Muslims and Jews believe in today. This journey covers two and a half thousand miles and takes us behind the […]

Georgia – In Search of Jason and the Argonauts

Squeezed between the Black and Caspian Seas lie the Caucasus, whose wild rivers and snowy peaks are virtually impassable. Two thousand years ago, though, Jason and his Argonauts entered these highlands seeking the Golden Fleece – a legend that DAVID ADAMS pursues on a vintage motorbike across Georgia and Azerbaijan. This is the land of […]

Ethiopia – Keepers of the Lost Ark

Ethiopia is the land of many faces. Its people are Christian Orthodox, Muslim and animist; the land varies from flat desert to high mountains and lakes; its chequered history goes back to the Queen of Sheba. Small wonder then that Ethiopia is also rumoured to be the final resting place of the Ark of the […]

Cambodia – The Lost World of the Khmer Rouge

Year Zero. The Killing Fields. Preserved by war in the isolated and forbidding final refuge of the Khmer Rouge are tantalizing hints of the “Asian Unicorn”, the khting vor. David Adams Journeys through the dark of Cambodia in search of this semi-mythical beast.

Bolivia – The Last Trail of Butch and Sundance

Bolivia is one of only two landlocked countries in South America – and indeed, is so isolated that it has often been dubbed the ‘Tibet of the Americas’, thanks to its Andean Cordillera. Small wonder that it’s commonly regarded as the secret haunt of drug barons, revolutionaries like the late Che Guevara and ex-Nazi war […]

Afghanistan – In search of the Lost Buddha’s

David Adams has long specialized in making features about remote places, peoples and their cultures – all wildly different. One of the countries he visited recently is Afghanistan.

Flight Of The Elephants

After three weeks of torrential rain and tropical growth, two metre high walls of arching elephant grass are the only suggestion of a trail. It meanders vaguely away through the unkempt palms of a deserted coconut plantation, it too rapidly being consumed by the jungle from which it was carved. An endowment from the King […]

Burma’s Open Road

Burma’s Open Road explores the lives of every day Burmese intertwined with the fortunes of the reconstruction of the Burma Road through Asia’s last great wilderness. Guided by the insights of a Buddhist monk, the film offers unprecedented access into Myanmar and the plight of opium growers, soldiers, villagers, poachers and prospectors, each connected by […]